EDITORIAL: Bracing for hurricane season

Apr 15, 2013

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE START of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season is less than two months away, but with the predictions from the various forecasters of a very active season, we need to start putting the necessary precautions in place.
We must disabuse our minds of the silly notion that a hurricane will not hit our country, believing that it enjoys the Saviour’s special blessings and we can therefore ignore the scientific data being presented by the meteorological experts. Yes, we can stupse and criticize the predictions, but we do so at our own peril.
This country has had the good fortune not to have had a direct hit by a major hurricane since Janet in 1955 and we hope that this run of good luck continues for a very long time.

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